Research suggests that there is greater potential for brain, mind, body, motor, and overall holistic development in an ...

New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

Exposure to air pollution in early life could have lasting effects on child development and mental health in adolescence, ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

Everything the brain does—from storing memories to interpreting sights to regulating emotions—requires energy, all produced ...

Early-life adversity affects over half of children worldwide, increasing the risk of cognitive and mental health issues later ...

In a recently published review, researchers led by Prof. Wu Qingfeng at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences explored the ongoing process of neural ...

By studying never-before-seen details of brain connectivity in human infants, researchers have identified how a balance of innate structure and flexible learning produces our remarkably organized ...

Mother's Gut Microbiome During Pregnancy Shapes Baby's Brain Development Aug. 20, 2024 — A study in mice has found that the bacteria Bifidobacterium breve in the mother's gut during pregnancy ...

Routine ultrasound tests during pregnancy may be able to pick up problems with your baby’s brain development, such as enlarged ventricles or spaces within the brain. If a problem shows up on ...